If you thought that the sound of increasing discontent rising from Lincoln Financial Field during Eagles games this season was a Philly first, then you may just be young enough not to have lived through the 1968 Eagles season.
Eight years after winning the NFL Championship at Franklin Field, the Eagles were enduring one of their worst campaigns ever with an 0–11 start.
The final game of that miserable campaign (on December 15th) would occur less than 24 hours after a blizzard in the City when the regular Santa didn’t show up for the halftime Christmas pageant, a young Nick Olivo dressed as Santa was picked from the stands.
As he walked out at halftime , Olivo was serenaded with boos and pelted with snowballs from the snow that had accumulated in the seats from the night before.
Things would get even worse for the 2–11 Eagles — they would lose that game at home to former Philadelphia wide receiver Bud Grant’s Vikings, 24–17.
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